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This feed provides you with all latest news regarding updates, maintenance and more information for the systems of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart.TYPO3 - get.content.righthttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssThu, 31 Dec 2015 09:17:00 +0100Supercomputer Hornet Up and Runninghttp://www.hlrs.de//news/systems/systems/article/supercomputer-hornet-up-and-running/
Cray XC40 System Hornet Replaces Hermit HLRS’s new Cray XC40 system is based on the new Intel Xeon processors, formerly code-named “Haswell”, and the Cray Aries system interconnect. In its current configuration state, Hornet consists of 21 cabinets hosting 3,944 compute nodes, which sums up to a total of 94,656 compute cores. The system’s main memory capacity is 493 Terabyte. Users will specifically benefit from the now quadrupled storage space the HLRS supercomputing infrastructure provides: 5.4 Petabyte of file storage with an Input/Output speed in the range of 150GB/s are available to meet the performance challenges of today’s most demanding users of HPC systems (High Performance Computing), which come from a wealth of fields ranging from the automotive and aerospace research and industries to medicine and life sciences, astrophysics and geophysics, amongst others.
Hornet is the successor of HLRS’s previous flagship computer Hermit, which after about three years in service is gradually been taken out of operation. The system replacement went according to the earlier agreed HPC system roadmap in which – given the rapid pace of technology change – a 3-year-life cycle for Hermit had been defined. “HPC systems have become an indispensable tool to achieve breakthrough discoveries and innovations. With Hornet, we have taken the next step for HLRS to enable world-class research,“ states Professor Dr.-Ing. Michael M. Resch, Director of HLRS. “It is very important for us that we are now in a position to offer state-of-the-art HPC technology also to our industrial users. Together with our simulation expertise the extended simulation capacities and capabilities of Hornet provide our scientific and industrial users in Germany and Europe with perfect means to continue enabling innovation and quality of the highest degree.”
More Power Output – Less Power Consumption HLRS’s new high-end HPC system delivers significantly increased computing power – it outperforms Hermit both in peak as in sustained performance by a factor of about 4 – while at the same time excelling in drastically reduced power consumption. In combination with the at HLRS installed energy-efficient cooling system, an optimal cost-of-ownership is achieved which furthers the national HPC centre’s aspirations to be a model example in the area of energy efficiency and sustainability.
Outlook
Following its ambitious technology roadmap, HLRS will extend Hornet in 2015 with 20 additional cabinets, boosting the system’s expected peak performance to then over 7 PetaFlops.
Hornet as well as the system expansion planned for 2015 is funded through the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing with support of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg.
See also: overview on provided platforms
]]>SystemsHome Top NewsFri, 28 Nov 2014 12:29:00 +0100HLRS runs fastest civil supercomputer in Europehttp://www.hlrs.de//news/systems/systems/article/hlrs-runs-fastest-civil-supercomputer-in-europe/
In the Top500 list of the fastest supercomputers published today the new HLRS computing system at...During the last weeks the HERMIT system has been installed at the High Performance Computing Centre in Stuttgart.

The System is equipped with 3552 dual-socket compute nodes and with the first system in Europe with the new AMD Interlagos CPU.

Access to this system is open for research projects from Germany and Europe.

Further information on the system configuration can be found here

]]>SystemsMon, 14 Nov 2011 15:07:00 +0100HERMIT system has finalized acceptance phasehttp://www.hlrs.de//no_cache/news-storage/hlrsde-systems-rss-feed/article/hermit-installation-started/
The HLRS Petaflop system has been successfully passed acceptance testing and will enter normal... XE6 ]]>HPCNSystemsWed, 05 Oct 2011 16:36:00 +0200Extension of power and cooling infrastructurehttp://www.hlrs.de//news/systems/systems/article/extension-of-power-and-cooling-infrastructure/
On April 12 HLRS started the construction of new power supply facilities for its next generation...

Detail documentation can be found here. ]]>SystemsHPCNFri, 12 Jun 2009 12:00:00 +0200New Intel Nehalem Clusterhttp://www.hlrs.de//news/systems/systems/article/new-intel-nehalem-cluster-available/
is available !Technical details are

700 Dual Socket Quad core nodes

Processors: Intel Xeon (X5560) Nehalem @ 2.8 GHz, 8MB Cache

Memory: 12GB

Interconnect: Infiniband

Filesystem: 60TB (Lustre)

Accelerators: 32 nodes provide Nvidia Tesla S1070 GPU

Peak Performance: 62 TFlops

Detailed documentation can be found here
]]>SystemsHPCNFri, 12 Jun 2009 11:42:00 +0200OS upgrade for the cluster cacauhttp://www.hlrs.de//news/systems/systems/article/os-upgrade-for-the-cluster-cacau/
OS upgrade for the cluster cacau will take place on March 16th 13:00 till 18:00
The new operating...SystemsHPCNWed, 25 Feb 2009 10:22:00 +0100Final power down for NEC SX-6http://www.hlrs.de//news/systems/systems/article/final-power-down-for-nec-sx-6-copy-1/
Final power down for NEC SX-6 system will be on March 2nd, 10:00.
The following NEC SX-6 file...Final power down for NEC SX-6 system will be on March 2nd, 10:00.
The following NEC SX-6 file systems will be deleted:

gdata0 ===> HOME @ SX-6

/gscr0 /gscr1 /gsrc2 and /gscr3 ===> Scratch @ SX-6

]]>SystemsHPCNWed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100NEC SX-8 to NEC SX-9 transitionhttp://www.hlrs.de//news/systems/systems/article/nec-sx-8-to-nec-sx-9-transition/
Due to adminstrative reasons, an automatic user migration to the NEC SX-9 system is not possible...HLRS projects "Bundesprojekte"
This projects are migrated onto the NEC SX-9. To access the system the frontend ontake.hww.de has been installed. Please check the online documentation for more information.

D-Grid Projects

Users may access the NEC SX-9 system using unicore. Please check following page. Interactive access using ssh or globus tool kit is not possible. To get full support we strongly recommend to file a project proposal.

System status

NEC SX-8 36 Nodes

NEC SX-9 10 Nodes

The final configuration of the NEC SX-9 (12 nodes) requires to reduce the number of NEC SX-8 nodes. This will happen with short notice. The integration of the Cluster part in the NEC SX-9 will take place in April 2009. At this time the NEC SX-8 will be turned off.]]>SystemsHPCNWed, 04 Feb 2009 09:25:00 +0100NEC SX-9 in acceptancehttp://www.hlrs.de//news/systems/systems/article/meine-news/
NEC SX-9 System enter pre-production mode
SystemsHPCNThu, 04 Dec 2008 14:45:00 +0100